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Robbie Williams considers quitting music

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MusicRooms.net has reported that Robbie Williams is considering quitting music, stating that his career has become a "monster".

"I don't see me singing again," said the, um, singer. "It's a question of what I want and where I want to be."

He'll now spend the next 18 months deliberating over his future, apparently. Williams' new single, the absolutely awful 'Rudebox' - really, it's probably the worst thing we've heard on the radio all year - is out on September 4.

Williams added: "Can I live without radio picking my song and putting it on the playlist? Or is this fame thing something I'm addicted to?"

Perhaps, 'cause you're sure as hell not addicted to producing quality material anymore. Or is this admission of uncertainty simply a smokescreen intended to cover the shite-ness of that new single? Does anyone care?

Nah.



  • ...

    All... my life... I've dreamed of hearing these words...

    ...I... I don't know what to think...

    I'm just... so... HAPPY!

  • 'robbie to quit music'

    please please please let this be true.

  • Translation:

    "You can't fire me! I quit!"

  • i agree

    i think this is some sort of robbie attention seeking ploy. unfortunatly i don't think we will ever get rid of him totally. his new single is awful, i thought it was a joke when i heard it.

    • He did say he might never

      sing again. Nothing about rapping.

      • .....

        seriously. that new single is so far beyond the realms of crap that its teetering like a spinning top on the edge of becoming historically moribund, it may just disappear completely from reality.

        • Yeah but its like hyper-crap

          or something. Like, if you channeled crap through a superconductor, this is what would come out. Thus it is totally compelling & awful, like clips of rally cars crashing into big crowds of people stood at the edge of rural roads, in the 70's.

          The bit in the 'rap' about TK Maxx is like puke in your nostrils.

  • There is only

    one thing that could turn this terrific news into very bad news....

    (The Suns Headline in 5/6 years)

    "A ROBBIE WILLIAMS COMEBACK TOUR"

    I say we just let the cunt make his shit music, continue ignoring him and hope that one day everyone will see him for the worthless spunk bubble that he is.

  • Three words...

    Blatant. Publicity. Stunt.

  • Rudebox is fucking great

    it has the best lyrics ever.

    "tkmaxx is the best(yes)"

    Amazing.

  • These PR stunts work

    all i wanna do now is go and check out rudebox

  • He has also said

    according to the Daily Record, that "The next album's on its way and it's a return to acid house."

    He has already written the album after that too, it's based on the
    gluesniffing generation. The first track is called Wot? And it's
    features a rap by Robbie that goes:

    "wot wot wot you got
    Do you
    Got any glue
    I hope you do
    Cos I like glue
    Girls are lovely girls are nice
    I have slept with a girl-
    Twice.
    Wot wot wot you got
    Glue glue who are you? Etc. "

    (to the tune of Last of the summer wine)

  • I bet Guy Chambers...

    has got some sort of smug smile on his face right now.

  • Fingers? CHECK.

    Toes? CHECK. Arms? CHECK. Eyes. CHECK. Yup, everything crossed. Hope and a FERVENT prayer. I hope he goes away, tries to find some point/happiness and stop flogging his dead horse of a 'talent'.

    • he has never

      produced quality material. Ever. And i - as a female - am sick to death of hearing how attractive he is. He isn't. Thank God. This is the best news I have heard for a long, long time. Please make it happen.

  • aww

    i quite like robbie williams, some of his 90s stuff was some of the best pop around at the time, and he does make me chuckle.

    c'mon kids, it's not like he's stealing fans from Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, eh?

    that said, anyone who calls a song "Rudebox", must be at least a little bit a spanner

  • I used to hate him

    for his unbearable smugness and then the 'troubled star' angle. Then he grew oin me, and I realised he is a brilliant shopwman and born to perform.

    Then I heard Rudebox, terrible terrible attempt at being justin Timberlake.

    • good.

      this is the best news in years, even if it is probably bullshit lies. The fact people class him as a "good performer" and all that shite is a sad sign of how low modern entertainment has got. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  • oh please get the joke

    robbie williams has had a great career based on irony, rudebox is pure genius, its a take the piss song hense tkmax cost less lyric, its laugthing at the justins and puff daddys who churn out this sort of rnb shite robbies having a laugth and being ironic he is a great lyric writer, and people are always knocking him and trying to pigeon hole him but what ever u say a bout him theres no one else like him, but theirs loadsof justins, he dosent take himself seriously so i wished people would stop taking him sooooo seriously, his very intelligent! and whos got the 80million pound contract not you bunch of wankers what gives you the write to call some one a cunt when you dont even know them you vile nerds
    so get a life losers!
    robbie williams has had a great career based on irony, rudebox is pure genius, its a take the piss song hense tkmax cost less lyric, its laugthing at the justins and puff daddys who churn out this sort of rnb shite robbies having a laugth and being ironic he is a great lyric writer, and people are always knocking him and trying to pigeon hole him but what ever u say a bout him theres no one else like him, but theirs loadsof justins, he dosent take himself seriously so i wished people would stop taking him sooooo seriously, his very intelligent! and whos got the 80million pound contract not you bunch of wankers what gives you the write to call some one a cunt when you dont even know them you vile nerds
    so get a life losers!

  • Hurrah!

    You kind of have to hand it to the guy for managing to make so much money out of tone-deaf saddos, but there comes a time when enough is enough.

    I thought that the chorus to 'Advertising Space' was pretty much the only decent thing that he ever wrote, and I'm half expecting to find that this, like so many other passable tunes (by equally crap artists) that have disingenuously been peddled to our largely ignorant population, is actually just another cover version; or else another dirty rip-off like that silly 'Supreme' song, which sounds almost exactly like 'Tragedy' by Gloria Gaynor (the two tunes are identical, with the exception of about one note).

    And what's up with all the 'swing' numbers he keeps meddling with...and that bloody silly hair-do...and that daft grin that makes him look like the irritating builder guy fom Coronation Street. Aaaaarrrggghh!

    Like I said: fair play to ol' Robbie for making so much cash, etc, but I think we all deserve a nice, permanent holiday from his brand of...erm...music.

  • Oops! I take it back!

    Amendment to my last post:

    I actually meant that 'Supreme' is a rip-off from 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor (can't even remember who wrote 'Tragedy').

    That'll teach me to be a 'vile nerd'!

  • nice

    It would be nice.
    But alas his Bloated ego won't allow it.